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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Overall the Oct 1st event went quite well, though I think it would be nice to get more ‘designer/videograhper types’ next time as the crowd was very developer-heavy. We have a long way to go to make these types of events for video mainstream rather than niche it is today.

YouBomber – voice and graphical video annotations editor by Tom Saffell (co-founder, sellstage.com) . Main prize winner overall and winner of the YouTube API prize. The user can play a YouTube video, draw and talk-over it, stop and resume playback. Upon replay, all of that (including voiceover) is nicely replayed. The overall experience almost matches a CSI show, where the ‘bad guy’ is typically identified by the investigator viewing a close circuit television footage 🙂 Very cool hack, though totally non compliant with YouTube’s ToS (since we don’t allow painting over the player area :-/).

Ragatzi – by Semira Rahemtulla (CEO and Co-founder) and team Ragatzi. YouTube API prize winner. Using YouTube API, TokBox (video chat), RoR back-end, JavaScript front-end. Designed to keep distributed families closer, it handles the ‘bedtime story’ use case where a remote family member is reading a book or watching together a video with a child.

Music Explorer – by Carl Rosenberg and Alex Kalinin from coincident.tv, YouTube API prize winner. Uses Rovi API and YouTube API to help one discover and listen to new music. Allows for browsing of related artists to find similar performers of the same genre.

If you’ve always wanted to hack a cool video app together but were afraid to try, now is your chance. YouTube, Mashery, OpenTok, Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, Rovi Cloud Services, Zencoder & Shelby.tv are sponsoring a video hackathon in San Francisco on October 1st. All you need to do is register here: http://videohackdaysf.eventbrite.com/ and show up. We’ll have cool prizes (including Logitech Revue GoogleTV), free food an beer, and plenty of inspiration. I plan to be there early on Sat so if you’d like to chat prior to hacking let me know!
If you’re coming, here’s a deck that will get you started.